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10 Dec 2016 4:16:08am

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An addendum re John Paul's legacy.

The photographs of Benedict's installation tell us in no uncertain terms why women will not be accepted as priests in this overwhelmingly power and control seeking patriarchal church.

Such is entirely bad news for ALL of humankind.Why?

Because what is URGENTLY required for human culture, particularly in the West, is the complete re-integration of the Feminine Principle into the collective Western psyche. The re-integration of SHE or Shakti or the Goddess - woman clothed in the Sun for REAL.

Not just as some consoling archetype as in the cult of Mary.

An archetype which is used by the church fathers to manipulate and effectively stifle the very real intrinsic Spiritual impulses of Catholic women.

Plus J-P ushered in or facilitated the take-over of the church by the ultra patriarchal Opus Dei and similar outfits.

In doing so he cemented into the church for forever and a day the monstrous situation described thus:

The entire social and cultural game of antisexual, "spirit" against "flesh" doctrine and education is so monstrous, so opposed to incarnate happiness and even the possibility of Real human responsibility, that it must be considered the primary social, cultural and even philosophical issue of our time.

Even more such a double-minded disposition actually prevents the necessary Spiritual and thus moral growth of human beings in the form of each and every individual.

And by extension it actively prevents the intrinsic evolutionary impulse and development of the human species as a whole.

Such is also entirely bad news on a monstrous scale for humankind as a whole.